Iron Mind: Defending Against Propaganda & Counter Victimization

Thomas Jefferson had it right. Propaganda is the greatest threat to any democracy. Or did you just believe a quote that I made up with a picture of him to add credence to this blog? Iron Palm or Iron Hand is a body of training techniques in various martial arts. It is originally one of the 72 art...

Detecting Fake Videos

This story nicely illustrates the arms race between technologies to create fake videos and technologies to detect fake videos: These fakes, while convincing if you watch a few seconds on a phone screen, aren't perfect yet. They contain tells, like creepily ever-open eyes, from flaws in their...

Shining a Light on a New Technique for Stealth Persistence

Red teamers like myself and my team are driven by a desire to out-innovate the bad guys – to help the good guys. We study their methods, strive to think like they do, work to better understand attacker techniques and test our mettle against the spectrum of technologies in use today to find new wa...

Cb Integrations: Cb Response Timeliner

Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on StillzTech.com and is being republished with permission from the author. Github: Incident Response is a challenging career. As responders, we must do our best to keep up to date with the latest attack trends, malware and forensic techniques...

Cb Integrations: Cb Response Timeliner

Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on StillzTech.com and is being republished with permission from the author. Github: Incident Response is a challenging career. As responders, we must do our best to keep up to date with the latest attack trends, malware and forensic techniques...

Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by a Bouncy Castle vulnerability

Summary IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-5382 DESCRIPTION: Bouncy Castle could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the BKS version 1 keystore files. By utilizing an HMAC that is only 16...

Increased Use of a Delphi Packer to Evade Malware Classification

Introduction The concept of "packing" or "crypting" a malicious program is widely popular among threat actors looking to bypass or defeat analysis by static and dynamic analysis tools. Evasion of classification and detection is an arms race in which new techniques are traded and used in the wild...

Osiris Banking Trojan Displays Modern Malware Innovation

After staying dormant for few years, the Kronos banking trojan resurfaced in July in a form dubbed Osiris. A wider analysis of how the banking trojan is evolving shows innovative development on the part of its authors, with an eye to broader malware trends. Osiris first appeared in July in three...

Office VBA + AMSI: Parting the veil on malicious macros

As part of our continued efforts to tackle entire classes of threats, Office 365 client applications now integrate with Antimalware Scan Interface AMSI, enabling antivirus and other security solutions to scan macros and other scripts at runtime to check for malicious behavior. Macro-based threats...

Bad Actors Sizing Up Systems Via Lightweight Recon Malware

Well-known financial crime gang Cobalt Group and other threat actors have recently shifted tactics to incorporate lightweight modular downloaders that “vet” target machines for their attractiveness before proceeding with a full-fledged attack. The emergence of the AdvisorsBot and Marap malwares, ...

Using MITRE ATT&CK When Researching Attacker Behavior in a Post-Compromise World

MITRE ATT&CK is arguably one of the best assets available to security professionals who want to dive into the intricacies of detecting and preventing adversary behaviors. Why is that? It’s a great knowledge base of known adversarial behaviors overlayed with attacker TTPs and their state in the...

The use of Microsoft Edge vulnerability to steal local files-bug warning-the black bar safety net

In 2015, Microsoft released the Edge browser. When it was originally developed, it was named Project Spartan to. With Internet Explorer different, Edge support of the broader modern security measures, such as Content Security Policy, CSP, and modern JavaScript and CSS properties. Abandon Internet...

Datasploit - An OSINT Framework To Perform Various Recon Techniques On Companies, People, Phone Number, Bitcoin Addresses, Etc., Aggregate All The Raw Data, And Give Data In Multiple Formats

Overview of the tool: Performs OSINT on a domain/email/username/phone and find out information from different sources. Correlate and collaborate the results, show them in a consolidated manner. Tries to find out credentials, api-keys, tokens, subdomains, domain history, legacy portals, etc. relat...

AdvisorsBot Downloader Emerges in Raft of Malware Campaigns

A new downloader was disclosed today, sporting significant anti-analysis features and increasingly sophisticated distribution techniques. Researchers at Proofpoint have been tracking the downloader as a first-stage payload in campaigns since May 2018. Dubbed AdvisorsBot due to early...

Badgelife: A Defcon 26 retrospective

One more year gone, one more Defcon completed. Defcon is the longest-running security conference in existence and one that I have been attending since Defcon 18. It is an opportunity to see and interact in real life with industry peers that would forever remain a digital persona otherwise. It is...

Dark Tequila Banking Malware Uncovered After 5 Years of Activity

Security researchers at Kaspersky Labs have uncovered a new, complex malware campaign that has been targeting customers of several Mexican banking institutions since at least 2013. Dubbed Dark Tequila, the campaign delivers an advanced keylogger malware that managed to stay under the radar for fi...

Dynamic API Call Tracer for Windows and Linux Applications: Drltrace

Drltrace is a dynamic API calls tracer for Windows and Linux applications designed primarily for malware analysis. Drltrace is built on top of DynamoRIO dynamic binary instrumentation framework. Motivation Malware analysis is not an easy task. Sophisticated software packers like Themida and...

New Ways to Track Internet Browsing

Interesting research on web tracking: "Who Left Open the Cookie Jar? A Comprehensive Evaluation of Third-Party Cookie Policies: Abstract: Nowadays, cookies are the most prominent mechanism to identify and authenticate users on the Internet. Although protected by the Same Origin Policy, popular...

New Trickbot Variant Touts Stealthy Code-Injection Trick

Trickbot has been around since 2016 – but a new variant of the infamous financial trojan has caught the eyes of researchers with a stealthy code-injection technique. Researchers at Cyberbit this week said that they have found a new Trickbot iteration that features a sneaky method of performing...

Google Expands Bug-Bounty Program to Battle Abuse Methods

Google is now offering rewards for newly-discovered techniques that bad actors could use to bypass its systems protecting against abuse, fraud and spam. The company has expanded its bug bounty program scope beyond security vulnerabilities to also focus on mitigations around potential abuse method...